Fears were brought up in Maine after three people in the state have proven positive to the world’s most bloody diseases in the world.
Patients were diagnosed with active tuberculosis and there was no connection between them, indicating that each of them has a different source.
Officials said they were in the Greater Portland area, and it is now underway to determine and isolate their close contacts.
It comes amid a rise in cases in the United States, where America has reported 10347 infections in 2024, the last available year, an increase of eight percent over the previous year and the highest balance since 2011 when there were 10,471 cases recorded.
But officials said that the risk of the public from the last injuries was low.
The World Health Organization considers that tuberculosis is the bloodiest in the world because it kills most people from any disease, gets about 1.25 million lives every year, and most of them are in developing countries.
The disease suffers from a high death rate, killing up to half of the patients if they are left without treatment or non -fortified. This is much higher than Covid death rate, less than one percent, measles, 10 percent for non -healer patients, and Legionnaire, about 10 percent.
Tuberculosis was actually the death penalty in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when there was no treatment, although it could now be prevented through vaccines and treated with antibiotics.
The officials said that the three patients with active tuberculosis, which means that the bacteria are doubled in their lungs, were in the Greater Portland region (as shown above the image of Portland, Men)
Tuberculosis was killed more than 16,000 people in the United States every year in the fifties, but deaths now decreased 28 times to about 550 people annually.
Most cases of tuberculosis in the United States are imported or because of migration to the country.
There were no more details about Maine cases, including their names, ages and fine sites.
The state’s disease control center revealed infections on Tuesday, and the residents advised to be aware of symptoms such as a continuous cough that is not easy within three weeks.
Infections were described as active, indicating that bacteria were doubled in the lungs of the sick, but when they started it was not clear.
But they added that the risks to the general public were low.
Dr. Dura Ann Mills, the chief health improvement employee in Minahth, warned that tuberculosis could only be transmitted if someone “is closely communicating” with a person.
I told Portland Press Herald: ‘The vast majority of people do not need anxiety about this.
The names and ages of patients have not been revealed. The above appears X -rays on the chest of a person with tuberculosis
TB infections are increasing in the United States, and has now reached its highest level since 2011
“It does not spread through informal contact like shaking hands or sharing towel. It is less infectious than influenza or Covid.
It may take days until the disease affects a good healthy person who lives in the same house as the patient.
Online reports indicated that the cases were linked to a shelter for asylum seekers in the region, but officials said that there is no evidence that this is the case.
Officials say the cases are not after the outbreak, which are defined as more cases than expected in a specific location or number.
Main state has already reported 28 cases of tuberculosis so far this year, and the numbers appear, only 11 cases less than 39 cases registered in 2024.
26 cases were reported in 2023. it was not clear whether this would be a record year.
Children and older adults and those who suffer from the weakest immune devices are more likely to be infected.
In the early stages, symptoms of the disease include a continuous, non -interpreted cough, and sometimes it coughs blood or chest pain.
Patients may also have unpopular weight loss, loss of appetite, fever and night sweating.
In subsequent stages, patients may face severe breathing difficulties, widespread damage to the lung and infection may spread to other organs such as the liver or back, causing pain in these areas.
Patients die from the disease due to the failure of the respiratory system, or when the damage to the lungs means that they can no longer get enough oxygen in the body.
Doctors can treat the disease with antibiotics and can vaccinate against the disease using a snapshot called BCG vaccine.
This is not routinely presented in the United States, because the disease is not common, but it can be requested to children, leaving a small circular scar on the arm, a natural response and signing that the vaccine was effective.
It can also be given to adults, but it is less effective in this group and may lead to a person’s positive testing of the disease.
In developing countries, the vaccine is given to children under the age of 16.